Using the lighting circuit for a radio in a bathroom?

[alan.surry]

I want to put a DAB radio in our upstairs bathroom, but getting the supply to it could be awkward, so I'm considering putting an RCD fused spur on the ceiling and running the supply off of the lighting circuit. This way, the radio can be mounted above head height and be switched remotely by the light switch in the corridor outside. Other than the need to have the lights on to listen to the radio, can anyone see any problems with this arrangement?

Best regards, Alan

 

[44ALLAN]

Don't forget to put a drip tray under the fused spur and the radio to catch the drops

 

[Sharpend]

Why not have the radio mounted externally to bathroom with a speaker ceiling mounted in bathroom?
Then you can have the radio when it suits, without the need for the light?

 

[Jamieblatant]

I have had the lights feeding a round pin socket via a spur with a 1 amp fuse in in the loft of all my bathrooms in vairous houses

i then fitted a celling speaker or just a grille with a box made from plasterboard with speaker in it in the early days


sparkies privilege your house do what you like

 

[trev]

Alan, this is a recipe for disasters of the personal hygiene variety. More to the point, your personal hygiene!
If you go ahead with this folly your children, in particular any teenage daughters, will be unmoveable from the bathroom (as if it isn't already difficult enough to get the buggers out of there). You will also be condemned to have dreadful music such as the Black Eyed Peas and David Guetta reverberating through your home.
Please abandon this plan for the sake of your own sanity (and personal hygiene)

 

[Jamieblatant]

Alan, this is a recipe for disasters of the personal hygiene variety. More to the point, your personal hygiene!
If you go ahead with this folly your children, in particular any teenage daughters, will be unmoveable from the bathroom (as if it isn't already difficult enough to get the buggers out of there). You will also be condemned to have dreadful music such as the Black Eyed Peas and David Guetta reverberating through your home.
Please abandon this plan for the sake of your own sanity (and personal hygiene)

not with my method put the tuner in the loft with radio 2 on then no more nails the loft hacth
psave a fortune in hot water

 

[telectrix]

better still, a loop tape system playing endless black sabbath, deep purple and led zeppelin.

 

[ipf]

Just link up and add a bit of disco lighting.

 

[Resu]

Would it not be cheaper and easier to just buy a waterproof radio?

 

[telectrix]

why not go the whole hog and get IP65 TV and sky box.

 

[Guest55]

youll never fit your tv in an adaptable box tel
;-)

 

[telectrix]

 

[Guest55]

but what about your betamax video player ?
lol

 

[telectrix]

in the attic along with the philips 2000.

 

[Dcf]

Try Kb sound radios and docks

 

[pennywise]

I'd buy a cheap last gen sonos set from ebay, the remote is 12v and wireless, then plug the amp and receiver in another room or loft then wire from that to the speaker. Then stream radio and tunes over your wifi

 

[Guest55]

Try Kb sound radios and docks

try humming.
;-)

 

[Outspoken]

If you have a shaver socket just put a euro plug on the radio and use it from the shaver socket...Job done.

Failing that, get one that uses batteries...

 

[SPARTYKUS]

ironic as I had one of these, and even when yers could tune the blighter in there was nay point inwatchin' yer footie laddies as yer cannae see the BALL

 

[guinnessgixer]

I put a car cd / radio in my bathroom wall with an inverter in the loft wired into the bathroom light, works a treat, ya cant beat rockin out to ac dc in the shower!!

 

[Outspoken]

I put a car cd / radio in my bathroom wall with an inverter in the loft wired into the bathroom light, works a treat, ya cant beat rockin out to ac dc in the shower!!

How the heck does the Inverter power the radio, an inverter turns DC into AC and the lights will be AC!!

 

[guinnessgixer]

LOL, got inverters on the brain today, my truck driver mate rang me up with his finger on the panick button, he couldn't understand why he could only boil his kettle and charge his phone but not boil his kettle and use his toaster as it tripped the breaker! quick lesson and he was happy!

 

[Outspoken]

Been there and done that..very recently tonight on the forum too

 

[alan.surry]

Thanks for all the replies. All of you that suggested running cables in the loftspace clearly didn't read the original post. Getting cables into the roof will be awkward as it's a dormer.

I'll pass on the inverter suggestion as I haven't got a DC supply to power it from, though I could park my campervan outside and run a cable up through the widow

A battery radio would do the trick, but I can guarantee my wife will run the batteries down, then being too lazy to replace them, resort to using a mains powered radio on an extension lead, which is what she's doing now !

I might just let her carry on with the current setup and increase her life insurance premiums.

 

[Darkwood]

Techno-nerds whatever happened to occupying yourself in the bathroom bet your a family who can't have a meal without the tv been on.... death to the art of family bonding :grouphug:

 

[Adam W]

I'd use a product specifically designed for the purpose in hand; either a battery powered shower radio or something more extravagant like this:
Tavistock Arpeggio Led Bathroom Mirror-£276.19 with Dab Radio/iPod Dock only at pluckpoint.com
or as already mentioned something with separate waterproof speakers, remote control etc.

IMO running things off lighting circuits because routing the cable is easier isn't 'the correct' thing to do, because it's unconventional so someone might not be expecting it, everything else you add to the lighting circuit increases the chances of it tripping and someone ending up in the bathroom in the dark, and most people find the fan coming on with the light is bad enough, never mind the radio coming on at whatever volume it was last used at.

 

[shanky887614]

i think you meant to say a rectifier rather than alternator

 

[Robert Turnbull]

I'll pass on the inverter suggestion as I haven't got a DC supply to power it from, though I could park my campervan outside and run a cable up through the widow

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